On November 18, Cécile Siméone claimed, on Instagram, to have been hit by a motorist. Not having been able to identify it, she relaunched the debate on the registration of all two-wheelers. The idea is not unanimous.
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“This man hit me. So. Yesterday I took a punch.“Facing the camera, Cécile Siméone recounts her attack to her 72,000 on Instagram. The day before, a cyclist whom she had just passed by car, physically attacked the former television presenter, now an interior decorator. .
A summary description (“a gentleman of around sixty years old, with a white goatee“) and a photo taken quickly from behind: these are the only elements that Cécile Siméone communicated to the police when she filed a complaint.
“If I had made a fishtail at this gentleman, or if I had hit him, he would have been able to take down my license plate number.“, she notes. Something impossible for cyclists. “Put license plates on bikes“, she suggests. An obligation that already exists for electric bikes whose motor power is greater than 250 watts or whose maximum assisted speed is 45 km/h. Particularity: the registered electric bike has not access to cycle paths or one-way streets authorized for other bicycles.
But the idea of generalizing registration to all bicycles is not unanimous, particularly among those primarily concerned. “This would discourage the use of bicycles“, apprehends Frédérique Bienvenue, from the Lyon cycling association Ville à Vélo. She continues: “Motorists have been registered for a long time and this does not prevent either assaults or hit-and-runs.“
Politicians themselves recently took up the subject. In June 2022; 68 senators (including eight in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) have tabled a bill “aimed at establishing registration for all motorized land vehicles whose speed reaches 15 km/h by engine power alone.“
In the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, the senators mention “an increase in the number of accidents or behaviors constituting traffic violations on the part of drivers of these vehicles.“Without registration, it is according to them”impossible to be able to find the driver of a collision, especially in the context of a hit-and-run preventing a possible complaint being filed or a request for compensation from the insurer.“This proposal was not adopted as is.
